They are quite old now, the first one came with a video card I picked up many moons ago. I bought the second one when it came out, but it has much higher requirements for a machine. Even then it isn't the smoothest running game, but a lot of fun anyways.
Basically you control your tank and build a base. You get a small fleet of tanks to assist you then go blow stuff up. You can even jump out of your tank and sniper other folks out of their tanks too. Very cool. The customization for your own tanks is pretty good.
You can think of Battlezone as a cross between starcraft, quake, and mech warrior.
Actually, she had a couple other folks ask her out the same week I did. She was anything but desperate. You see, we met in a programming class and got along fairly well in class. It was actually a couple months before I finally got to pick up the rain check. We dated for two years, and married a year and couple months later.
Granted replying to and AC who probably still downloads his women from usenet... anyways.
My wife and I did bookmarks. Sure, its not terribley geeky, but perhaps you could do something in theme. We had a couple bible verses. You could try doing something similar, but use something like the GPL on it or something.:-)
Another idea is to use a love letter or something you sent him/her on the book mark. In retrospect I could have used the first email I asked my wife out on a date with. It went something like this:
int ask_for_date(char *me, char *you) {
if (boyfriend(you) == true)
return APOLOGY;
Not just open source... Interest rates are super low! I am hoping the econmy stays in a slump for another year, I'm looking forward to buying a house with these interest rates.
Also I'd suggest CS Friedman's Coldfire Trilogy. This is a bit more the on dark side of fantasy, but enough strife within the series to make it entertaining.
Robin Hobb is one I suggest if you have not read it.
Farseer Trilogy Liveship Trader Trilogy Twany Man Trilogy (not finished as of yet)
Robin Hobb really brings the characters to life. They each have their desires and motivations, even the bad guys. You can relate to the bad guys quite well, as they seem to really be working for good causes at some points in time. It really brings out the ideas of how a situation is percieved to determine right and wrong.
Not quite, for a couple reasons. The obvious, is that MS has been declared a monopoly, you have to play by different rules as a monopoly. MS has a history of crowding out competing products on their platform, when they cannot compete they either give the software away "free" and raise the price of windows (see IE). The other method they use is embrace and extend, as they did with java.
With java they licensed java from Sun, then broke the rules of the contract. Because of their breaking the rules they have intentionally hurt Sun's product (dilution of trademark idea here), which is why when you start a new "java" project with j++ you get a little message about using MS specific extentions makes it incompatible with other java implimentations. Basically there needs to be a penalty for breaking the contract and the harm done to Sun's java product. To remedy this, the courts (judge here) is saying that they must ship Sun's JRE with windows.
So, while fair competition is an admirable goal, MS is anything but admirable in this case. They broke the contract with Sun, used bad tactics to harm Sun's java environment, and then finally tried to sweep it away and hide the fact of what they have done. Then looking at MS's.NET with it's supposed CLI timing-wise with their dropping their "java" implementation you see basically they are not interested in fair competition, they are interested in the elimination of competition.
And as a counter to BTW above, though I use java everyday (infact we are now in the process of migrating from msjava to java) I have no great love for the language. It has some very nice features, one being the base libraries, I would still prefer coding in C.
Granted, everyone else has pointed out that its not that they are trying to shut the site down, but simply gripe about someone else using their precious PCI name and logo for someothing completely related to the issue.
You could always rot26 it since, that would be twice as secure as rot13.
OR!
I always use primes... everyone in crytology knows you need to use primes. So, you have to use two primes, like rot13 it 5 times, then 3 times. How do you think its going to work without using primes?
OR!
Another way to secure your data is to use rot(prime). I also found that you can rot3 and then rot23 it, or even rot7 and rot19.
Luckly I didn't do that to this post or else it might have been impossible to ever read.
1) If you show up at your local store and find that someone graffiti'd the wall, would you still buy something there, or would you get in your car and leave?
2) If you hit a website for a retailer and find that someone graffiti'd their front page, would you still buy something there, or would you go someplace else?
There is no perfect analogy here for a couple reasons. When I am in a brick and mortar store, I have a reasonable expectation that the store does not have my CC# laying around for someone to take. An online version of the store does.
Basically, the online version has to prove to me that they are trustworthy before I buy from them, if their website has been defaced then they have not earned my trust. If I find a brick and mortar store has a reputation for bad security, I would also avoid it.
Basically, the idea is this. If you are a store online or off, you do not deserve my business, though you may earn my business. It is up to you to prove you are worthy of it.
On the otherside, breaking into machines that are not your is the same to me as breaking and entering, and possibley other crimes. Treat them as such.
This is such an articulate and intelligent comment. I am quite sure this fellow has read the budget plan Bush proposed and has found such things as, "vast tax cuts to the richest 1% of the population". Being the "dumb fucks think you're middle class" kind of guy I must agree with him. I now have a new insight into my life as a slave to the man.
Whoo-hoo! Replying to a Bruce post.:-P And not agreeing(sp?) with him.
I have to say that the address rewriting in sendmail is necessary. And because of it, sendmail was the only option for what I needed to do a short while ago. Basically we were using fetchmail to retreive mail from a single multidrop box from our ISP for our department email. Then, for the relay outbound we had to determine if the email was to be sent locally or back up to the ISP if the user was not in our department. Then, after all that I still needed to add amavis(sp?). Sure, it was not the cleanest/most readable.cf file, but it was the only thing I could get to do the trick. When looking at postfix I did not see anything that allowed me to do the address rewriting to the granularity required. Then looking at qmail, well... to avoid four letter words I'll stop there.
The best part of sendmail is actually its obtuse feature set. Its similar to cars with 4wd, most poeple don't need it, but when you do need it, its mighty nice to have.
Okey, off topic now. But that drives me crazy. I hate distro's that require a CDdrive to boot/install. My CD drive is SCSI and cannot boot, so when I want to install a new distro or what not, I need to steal an IDE CD drive from my wifes machine. I keep a copy of slack 8.0 boot disks around for being able to boot for a recovery disk. I wish that 8.1 could still use the disks.:-( No dice though.
So, do you distribute a less than friendly version with your competitors logo on it at trade shows? That'd be just plain evil.
Personally I don't think I'd stick any software in my machine that could boot the machine from an untrusted source. I mean, this guy you just met (otherwise you wouldn't need his business card) gives you a piece of software that basically has root privilidges on your machine or better. Atleast if someone gives you a business card with software on it that does not boot you can run the software in a sandbox.
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Wow, is asthma that bad?
I mean, the choice of a lung that has asthma or no lung at all?
Granted IANAAsthmatic.
Battlezone. Not the wire frame versions.
They are quite old now, the first one came with a video card I picked up many moons ago. I bought the second one when it came out, but it has much higher requirements for a machine. Even then it isn't the smoothest running game, but a lot of fun anyways.
Basically you control your tank and build a base. You get a small fleet of tanks to assist you then go blow stuff up. You can even jump out of your tank and sniper other folks out of their tanks too. Very cool. The customization for your own tanks is pretty good.
You can think of Battlezone as a cross between starcraft, quake, and mech warrior.
Please, keep in mind that this was nearly five years ago. This is simpley they gist of the email. It wasn'tthe exact thing.
Actually, she had a couple other folks ask her out the same week I did. She was anything but desperate. You see, we met in a programming class and got along fairly well in class. It was actually a couple months before I finally got to pick up the rain check. We dated for two years, and married a year and couple months later.
Granted replying to and AC who probably still downloads his women from usenet... anyways.
Well, you see, it costs and arm and a leg...
(sorry)
My wife and I did bookmarks. Sure, its not terribley geeky, but perhaps you could do something in theme. We had a couple bible verses. You could try doing something similar, but use something like the GPL on it or something. :-)
:-)
Another idea is to use a love letter or something you sent him/her on the book mark. In retrospect I could have used the first email I asked my wife out on a date with. It went something like this:
int ask_for_date(char *me, char *you) {
if (boyfriend(you) == true)
return APOLOGY;
if (!free_friday(you)) {
rain_check(me, you);
} else {
return wanna_head_out(me, you);
}
}
But if you have anything similar to that, like a love letter or something that you both share and put it onto/into a bookmark I think its pretty cool.
(btw, that all compiled down into the wrong byte code when it ran, she did have a boyfriend, but I still got a rain check.
Not just open source... Interest rates are super low! I am hoping the econmy stays in a slump for another year, I'm looking forward to buying a house with these interest rates.
That's okey, we (Americans) know that you EUians are for the most part idiots anyways.
Okey, today we get a rough count of American vs EUian moderators.
/em pops www.babiesfirstchoice.com into the url bar in mozilla.
Server encountered an internal error.
You sure about that? Does the rest work as well?
Right, and nearly everyone who uses P2P is going to download stuff they are pirating anyways, we should just put a tax on the ports used by P2P apps.
And anyone who buys CDRs also needs to pay the pirating costs, cause you know everyone who buys those at some point will hear pirated music.
Everyone has their own little pet project that seems totally reasonable to tax. They are wrong for the most part. All except my little pet project.
Also I'd suggest CS Friedman's Coldfire Trilogy. This is a bit more the on dark side of fantasy, but enough strife within the series to make it entertaining.
Robin Hobb is one I suggest if you have not read it.
Farseer Trilogy
Liveship Trader Trilogy
Twany Man Trilogy (not finished as of yet)
Robin Hobb really brings the characters to life. They each have their desires and motivations, even the bad guys. You can relate to the bad guys quite well, as they seem to really be working for good causes at some points in time. It really brings out the ideas of how a situation is percieved to determine right and wrong.
Not quite, for a couple reasons. The obvious, is that MS has been declared a monopoly, you have to play by different rules as a monopoly. MS has a history of crowding out competing products on their platform, when they cannot compete they either give the software away "free" and raise the price of windows (see IE). The other method they use is embrace and extend, as they did with java.
.NET with it's supposed CLI timing-wise with their dropping their "java" implementation you see basically they are not interested in fair competition, they are interested in the elimination of competition.
With java they licensed java from Sun, then broke the rules of the contract. Because of their breaking the rules they have intentionally hurt Sun's product (dilution of trademark idea here), which is why when you start a new "java" project with j++ you get a little message about using MS specific extentions makes it incompatible with other java implimentations. Basically there needs to be a penalty for breaking the contract and the harm done to Sun's java product. To remedy this, the courts (judge here) is saying that they must ship Sun's JRE with windows.
So, while fair competition is an admirable goal, MS is anything but admirable in this case. They broke the contract with Sun, used bad tactics to harm Sun's java environment, and then finally tried to sweep it away and hide the fact of what they have done. Then looking at MS's
And as a counter to BTW above, though I use java everyday (infact we are now in the process of migrating from msjava to java) I have no great love for the language. It has some very nice features, one being the base libraries, I would still prefer coding in C.
Conspiracy.
Granted, everyone else has pointed out that its not that they are trying to shut the site down, but simply gripe about someone else using their precious PCI name and logo for someothing completely related to the issue.
You could always rot26 it since, that would be twice as secure as rot13.
OR!
I always use primes... everyone in crytology knows you need to use primes. So, you have to use two primes, like rot13 it 5 times, then 3 times. How do you think its going to work without using primes?
OR!
Another way to secure your data is to use rot(prime). I also found that you can rot3 and then rot23 it, or even rot7 and rot19.
Luckly I didn't do that to this post or else it might have been impossible to ever read.
How would this be modded informative... I'd like to meta-meta mod that moderation to +1 Funny along with this post as +1 Funny.
Using images.google.com too much?
Philip of Macedon said that (I seem to remember) 2300 year ago.
Damn, you are old... So, how did you know Philip, relative, just passing through Macedonia, parties?
1) If you show up at your local store and find that someone graffiti'd the wall, would you still buy something there, or would you get in your car and leave?
2) If you hit a website for a retailer and find that someone graffiti'd their front page, would you still buy something there, or would you go someplace else?
There is no perfect analogy here for a couple reasons. When I am in a brick and mortar store, I have a reasonable expectation that the store does not have my CC# laying around for someone to take. An online version of the store does.
Basically, the online version has to prove to me that they are trustworthy before I buy from them, if their website has been defaced then they have not earned my trust. If I find a brick and mortar store has a reputation for bad security, I would also avoid it.
Basically, the idea is this. If you are a store online or off, you do not deserve my business, though you may earn my business. It is up to you to prove you are worthy of it.
On the otherside, breaking into machines that are not your is the same to me as breaking and entering, and possibley other crimes. Treat them as such.
Why does it become a race crime? Is it a crime to be a racist?
Other than this hangup, I agree. Prosecute according to the real world crime they commit.
This is such an articulate and intelligent comment. I am quite sure this fellow has read the budget plan Bush proposed and has found such things as, "vast tax cuts to the richest 1% of the population". Being the "dumb fucks think you're middle class" kind of guy I must agree with him. I now have a new insight into my life as a slave to the man.
Idiot
Whoo-hoo! Replying to a Bruce post. :-P And not agreeing(sp?) with him.
I have to say that the address rewriting in sendmail is necessary. And because of it, sendmail was the only option for what I needed to do a short while ago. Basically we were using fetchmail to retreive mail from a single multidrop box from our ISP for our department email. Then, for the relay outbound we had to determine if the email was to be sent locally or back up to the ISP if the user was not in our department. Then, after all that I still needed to add amavis(sp?). Sure, it was not the cleanest/most readable .cf file, but it was the only thing I could get to do the trick. When looking at postfix I did not see anything that allowed me to do the address rewriting to the granularity required. Then looking at qmail, well... to avoid four letter words I'll stop there.
The best part of sendmail is actually its obtuse feature set. Its similar to cars with 4wd, most poeple don't need it, but when you do need it, its mighty nice to have.
Okey, off topic now. But that drives me crazy. I hate distro's that require a CDdrive to boot/install. My CD drive is SCSI and cannot boot, so when I want to install a new distro or what not, I need to steal an IDE CD drive from my wifes machine. I keep a copy of slack 8.0 boot disks around for being able to boot for a recovery disk. I wish that 8.1 could still use the disks. :-( No dice though.
So, do you distribute a less than friendly version with your competitors logo on it at trade shows? That'd be just plain evil.
Personally I don't think I'd stick any software in my machine that could boot the machine from an untrusted source. I mean, this guy you just met (otherwise you wouldn't need his business card) gives you a piece of software that basically has root privilidges on your machine or better. Atleast if someone gives you a business card with software on it that does not boot you can run the software in a sandbox.
Check it out.